The body has its own way of knowing, a knowing that has little to do with logic, and much to do with truth; little to do with control, and much to do with acceptance; little to do with division and analysis, and much to do with union. —Marilyn Sewell More about this quote Tags: truth acceptance knowledge logic analysis body control union Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I honor shit for saying: We go on. —Maxine Kumin More about this quote Tags: action honor shit continuation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have, it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Tags: life living soul body Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred. —Walt Whitman More about this quote Tags: wonder body sacredness human body Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Passionate love is not peculiar to the human species, for it penetrates through all existing things — celestial, elemental, vegetable, and mineral. —Avicenna More about this quote Tags: humanity love passion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: judgement sin affection care touch Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have attempted to separate the spiritual and the erotic, thereby reducing the spiritual to a world of flattened affect, a world of the ascetic who aspires to feel nothing. —Audre Lorde More about this quote Tags: spirituality feelings seperation eroticism asceticism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fear has a smell, as love does. —Margaret Atwood More about this quote Tags: love fear smell Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have so many words for states of mind, and so few for the states of the body. —Jeanne Moreau More about this quote Tags: words language body Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance. —Anna Quindlen in Every Last One More about this quote Tags: wonder fate whim happenstance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe? —Jacques Lacan More about this quote Tags: love romance universe generosity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. —A.R. Ammons More about this quote Tags: opinion creativity culture isolation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have. —Ernest Haskins More about this quote Tags: humor saving personal finance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment. —Willis Player More about this quote Tags: politics risk interests liberal Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. —William James More about this quote Tags: opinion prejudice thinking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email